So, apropos of nothing in particular, let’s say you wish to communicate privately with someone you’ve not communicated with privately before, for whatever reason you might have. And, wa…
A Theory of Messaging Styles & Ghosting.
Online communication tools serve many purposes. So does silence.
Epistemic Vigilance
Humans massively depend on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. To ensure that, despite this risk, communication remain...
Honest Communication Kills Weaponized Incompetence
It’s only human to need help — but we have to be able to admit it.
Mossberg: The tyranny of messaging and notifications
Can we endure even one more communications service?
The Power of Asynchronous Communication
Asynchronous communication allows us to maintain the essential bonds of friendship and dialog with the people that matter to us.
Chat is minimum-viable anything
Chat is the minimum-viable tool for online organizing. Without complete control over our means of communication, our ability to organize depends entirely on the goodwill of the very same hegemonic incumbents which we seek to surpass.
Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Quiet - Private messaging. No servers.
Quiet is available for all major platforms. (And eventually the web, too!)
Quiet - Private messaging. No servers.
Quiet is available for all major platforms. (And eventually the web, too!)
Data Minimisation in Communication Protocols: A Formal Analysis...
With the growing amount of personal information exchanged over the Internet, privacy is becoming more and more a concern for users. One of the key principles in protecting privacy is data...
Safety Without Compromising on Privacy
Our approach to safeguards in Tinfoil Chat that keeps your conversations private: model evaluations before hosting, plus safeguard models that run exclusively inside secure enclaves.
InnerNets - Make internet personal again
Our mission is to bring the right information to the right person, in the right way.
“Nothing Is Ever Over” - AT Protocol
Writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane joins Jim to trace how the social internet got here, what’s worth salvaging, and how we can do better by listening to people.
The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here.
Clarifying: I feel like we just invented email addresses. And they’re tricky, I get it. But I’m pushing back on “wtf is the @ symbol even, nobody knows what ‘inbox’ or ‘smtp’ is, stop making it hard for normies” Instead of making atproto invisible, what if we made it worth the learning curve?
Eli Mallon
If your goal is to make atproto accessible to non-technical users I implore you to stop calling them “normies”